Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister

Sunak and Mourdant trying to paint themselves as the only people that can provide defence of the realm… which of course is highly patriotic, and if you don’t believe in it then they’re anti British. I must have missed the bit where Penny was put in charge of defence…
Now, of course defence is a major issue in a changing world - as far as I can see there is plenty of money and highly committed and skilled soldiers, sailors and air people, but overly heavy management and top brass, and biblically poor procurement. But leaving a bear trap of massively increased spending - un costed - for the next 6 years a bit presumptuous.

Iron Dome is a daft idea - but the notion that we're somehow immune to mass drone attacks due to location is incredibly flawed.

See the ingenuity of the Ukrainians in fitting aircraft or ship mounted weapons onto the backs of trucks, or using off the shelf consumer drones with vending machine mechanisms to drop grenades.

Now just think what a hostile actor could do with a container ship loaded up with drones/munitions sailing past London...

At the moment, we have nothing to cope with anything like that. QRA Typhoons aren't doing st.

So I do think there's an argument for a cheap, small, easily supported anti drone/swarm defence capability - and that capability should be deployed properly around our cities and major installations. Something like the Dragonfire isn't a stupid idea.

Meanwhile, Russia is still kicking off - and Xi is pretty much committed to going aggressive in ways we'll simply have to respond to, otherwise he loses face.

I suspect only the hardest core of Tory voters will do so. Some, sadly I also know some, would vote Tory whatever.

It doesn't even need a container ship since drones can be built by almost anyone and launched from anywhere. Anyone with a van could launch 100 of them at once. The same goes for cyber warfare - all it takes is for someone in the Russian/Chinese/Iranian government to hack into the servers of a supermarket or petrol station company and the country will go back to panic buying mode and grind to a halt for a week.

lol

Well it wouldn't now would it Turbs because that would undermine the whole premise of mocking Mark Menzies.

They say the right has no sense of humour, I have no idea where that notion comes from.

the eye is happy to call out both sides because it appeals to people that want their politicians to be honest. Labour are frequently mentioned in the eye but then I expect you have a subscription to the Spectator so that your belief isn't hurt.

Which will be especially true if they do win a large majority and win seats that they never thought they could win so didn't put too much effort into checking the candidates.

I'm not sure either of you are capable of <not> playing the ball rather than the man, have anything remotely on-topic to offer, or recognise that the Eye front cover is merely an example of what I described, it's not entirely about the Eye per se. Pretending that it is gets attention away from the general fail.

I've read the Eye for years and it's a fun read most of the time, however it's never at its best when mimicking the Left's baseless sense of moral superiority no matter how it happens.

Sunak is making a reasonable fist of the hospital pass from Johnsone but doesn't relate well to the price of a loaf, Kier is making the best of avoiding anything beyond 'not the tories'. Neither are worthy of a vote.

Yet more playing the man not the ball, what a shock! Irony and ad homs to go.

Thanks for the flattering attention, more please. It'll arrive anyway when there's nothing on topic available.